World Cup 2018 prize money: Fifa increases financial offering to $400m October 28, 2017 The winning team at next year's World Cup in Russia will be awarded a record $38m (£29m) in prize money, after world football governing body Fifa boosted its financial offering to record levels. A total prize money pool of $400m represents a 12 per cent increase on the $358m paid out to teams at the [...]
Uefa figures reveal Leicester banked more money from Europe last season than Champions League winners Real Madrid and Europa League winners Manchester United October 20, 2017 Leicester City made more money from playing in Europe last season than Champions League winners Real Madrid, new figures from Uefa reveal. The European football governing body has published the exact sums earned in prize money and TV payments by clubs playing in the Champions League and Europa League last season. Leicester, currently in the [...]
Brighton’s brilliant beancounter: 20 years on, how a lifelong fan saved the Seagulls from extinction August 30, 2017 At 9pm on Christmas Eve 1996, Paul Samrah, a well-to-do partner at mid-tier accountancy firm Kingston Smith, sorted through the last of his mail in preparation for the festive break. “It was the last envelope I opened,” Samrah recalls to City PM. To his horror, he had been slapped with a two-year ban from Brighton [...]
How much is winning the Champions League worth? Prize money at stake for Liverpool and Celtic announced by Uefa August 18, 2017 Clubs can earn up to €57.2m (£48m) in prize money for winning the Champions League this season, after European governing body Uefa announced they would hand out €1.3bn to clubs in the competition. Uefa has recommitted to putting up the same sums of prize money as it did last season, when the competition’s most successful [...]
Champions League prize money 2017: Competition’s biggest earners Real Madrid and Juventus can win record prize in Cardiff June 2, 2017 This Saturday’s Champions League final between Juventus and Real Madrid pits two of the competition’s biggest-earners up against each other for the largest prize in its history. Juventus and Real Madrid are the highest and second-highest earning clubs from European competitions in the last five years, having been paid a respective €281m (£245.9m) and €277m [...]
Europa League prize money: Manchester United triumph more lucrative than their Champions League campaign May 25, 2017 Manchester United pocketed €14.7m (£12.7m) in prize money after winning the Europa League with a 2-0 win over Ajax in the final. The Premier League giants secured the final winner's prize of €6.5m to add to the €8.2m they'd already earned from European football governing body Uefa. Ajax, whose total wage bill is more than [...]
Arsenal players want Arsene Wenger to sign a new contract, insists Gunners striker Olivier Giroud March 20, 2017 Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud has declared that he and his team-mates want Arsene Wenger to sign a new contract despite the team’s current alarming slump. Wenger’s future remains uncertain, with the Frenchman yet to reveal whether he intends to extend his 20-year stay in north London and club chiefs silent on an increasingly sensitive issue. [...]
Jermain Defoe dreaming of Russia 2018 World Cup after earning long-awaited England recall March 20, 2017 Evergreen Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe admits he is desperate to capitalise on his second chance with England by earning a place in Gareth Southgate’s squad for next year’s World Cup in Russia. Defoe’s decision to leave the Premier League for Toronto and Major League Soccer in 2014 appeared to have dealt his international career a [...]
Leyton Orient winding-up order adjourned until June as owner Francesco Becchetti vows to inject £1m March 20, 2017 Leyton Orient have avoided administration – for now, at least – after the League Two club’s controversial owner Francesco Becchetti staved off a winding-up order brought by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Becchetti settled the unpaid tax bill but, at a High Court hearing today, was given until 12 June to pay off four other [...]
“Our model has a bright future” – Manchester City’s owners eye China and India as next outpost for burgeoning football empire March 19, 2017 Last week the Abu Dhabi-owned Manchester City became the first Premier League club to announce an official shirt sleeve sponsor, unveiling a deal with a Korean company at an event attended by their Spanish manager Pep Guardiola and German midfielder Ilkay Gundogan. The multi-year agreement with existing partner Nexen Tire — the first of its [...]
